but…they are still completely out of control…so we have been using, unsucessfully, a whipper-snipper. it really is out of desperation seeing as it also requires us to use about 10 extremely long extension cords.

That’s Sarah in the field rounding up the cord and below her is Armel in an earlier moment of desperation, whipper-snipping the pathways around the peas (that time with a gas-powered tool that only lasted a couple of rounds).